, Elizabeth Esther tweeted that she never went to prom because of her Fundamentalist upbringing.

In response, one of her followers tweeted that she didn’t have a prom because of Joshua Harris, the author of the influential book was published in 1997 and quickly became a hit among the Evangelical crowd.

Here was this young guy, only 21, preaching chastity, virtue and not kissing until you got married.

It was a supremely conservative message packaged with youthful fervor and a fedora.